in reply to which academy is better... arsenal and chelsea,,i think youll find the last few meetings between the 2 clubs arsenal had the upper hand regarding results
It's that pre-season tournament of Manchester again - Chelsea's fixtures: Wednesday 8 August: Arsenal, *6.30pm AWAY Thursday 9 August: Tottenham Hotspur, *12noon AWAY Thursday 9 August: Aston Villa, *3.30pm AWAY Friday 10 August: Manchester United, *2pm AWAY *Behind closed doors at Carrington, no spectators permitted.
Are we maintaining this thread for the new season? Would be nice to see squads like we did last summer etc. I'm also rather ambitiously attempting to keep track of all U21 and U18 goalscorers this season, rather than play catch-up midway through. Only for PDL1 though, PDL2 would be more time-consuming.
Good question. Just start a new one ? I will try to keep track of PDL2 for u18s (mainly) & u21s but only follow the North League along with Ipswich & Charlton in South League. Should we share it one thread ?
46 teams in 1 and 2, 40 in the old academy setup, similar numbers so yeah, one thread for them combined I should think, even if the U21 competition doubles the number of matches we're talking about!
^^Spam, know? Anyway, good start for our lot, winning 6-1 against City this morning at Cobham, 5 diff Eng scorers Mitchell, Houghton, RLC(best goal of the day), Colkett & Fanky Dabo . As per Juni, 15 out of 16 players involved are Eng eligible
Seems very impressive - what kind of goal was it for RL-C? He came on for the last 15 minutes of the u21 game last night against City - 0-0. Chelsea were very good, particularly in the first half - a very fast paced match - just didn't put one of the chances away.
Going by Juni's tweet: Match report: http://thechels.net/2012/08/under-18s-chelsea-6-1-manchester-city/ Hunte had two assists & caused plenty of problems down the wing, I hope they see him only as attacking option now on, no more converted leftback(even though Kevin Wright had a torrid time in the first half against Pozo).
Some u18s results: Arsenal lost 5-1 against Bolton - Man U lost 2-1 against Stoke - Liverpool drew 3-3 with Wolves.
Not sure I'll make a regular habit of this, we'll see, but yesterday's U18 PDL scores and scorers: Code: Blackburn U18 1-0 Norwich U18 Wassi Bolton U18 5-1 Arsenal U18 Youngs 2 Toral Clough 2 Newby Chelsea U18 6-1 Man City U18 Mitchell Cole Houghton Loftus-Cheek Boga Colkett Dabo Crystal Palace U18 1-1 Middlesbrough U18 Kaikai Warnett Everton U18 0-1 West Brom U18 Oduwa Man Utd U18 1-2 Stoke U18 Pearson Alabi Richards Reading U18 2-2 West Ham U18 Ikpeazu 2 E. Lee 2 Sunderland U18 3-4 Southampton U18 Hope Seager 3 Holland Ariyibi Lawson Wolverhampton U18 3-3 Liverpool U18 Moli Lussey Keita Peterson Ifil Gainford Newcastle U18 0-4 Tottenham U18 Dombaxe Coulthirst McEvoy D.McQueen
As discussed a while back, I wouldn't want them even thinking about puting him at left back for years yet. It's a last resort - but Cole won't last for ever.
Liverpool vPalace 3-3 (after the Pool being 3-0 up). Spurs 3 Man U4 http://www.manutd.com/en/Players-An...hotspur-u18-manchester-united-u18-report.aspx
Oh yeah. I'd already (now) seen the goal - and what a cracker it was. I've not heard yet how they (u18s) got on at the week end. I see West Ham u21s beat Everton 4-1 (I think it was)
I'm sure Juni or BlueRebelz can correct me but, I don't think we had any U18/U21 games this past weekend. Next up is the NextGen game on Tuesday.
Yeah there was no fixture on last Saturday. NextGen game is tomorrow & acc to Juni u18s have a behind closed door friendly against Reading on Wednesday.
Your lad Fanimo has been playing left-back interestingly. Chambers, Fanimo, Moncur, Turgott & Hall in the team.
THE PREMIER U18 LEAGUE RESULTS Saturday 25 August 2012 U18 PL – Group 1 Blackburn Rovers 1 – 1 Arsenal Norwich City 2 – 2 Bolton Wanderers West Bromwich Albion 1 – 4 Reading West Ham United 2 – 1 Everton U18 PL – Group 2 Southampton 2 – 1 Newcastle United Stoke City 2 – 1 Aston Villa Tottenham Hotspur 3 – 4 Manchester United U18 PL – Group 3 Fulham 7 – 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers Liverpool 3 – 3 Crystal Palace Middlesbrough 0 – 1 Manchester City U18 PL 2 – North Barnsley 0 – 3 Sheffield United Coventry City 2 – 1 Wigan Athletic Huddersfield Town 3 – 0 Birmingham City Leicester City 3 – 3 Derby County Sheffield Wednesday 2 – 3 Crewe Alexandra U18 PL 2 – South Bristol City 2 – 3 Brighton and Hove Albion Cardiff City 1 – 4 Ipswich Town Millwall 2 – 1 Queens Park Rangers Swansea City 0 – 3 Colchester United
I suspect he'll be sorry he's been played on the wing the last couple of years rather than a more central position like when he was so outstanding for England u16s in the VS. I notice he came on last night in the Capital One Cup.
THE PREMIER U18 LEAGUE RESULTS Saturday 1 September 2012 U18 PL – Group 1 Arsenal 2 – 1 Everton Blackburn Rovers 1 – 0 West Bromwich Albion Bolton Wanderers 3 – 1 West Ham United Reading 4 – 1 Norwich City U18 PL – Group 2 Aston Villa 2 – 3 Southampton Newcastle United 1 – 0 Stoke City U18 PL – Group 3 Chelsea 2 – 0 Wolverhampton Wanderers Crystal Palace 3 – 4 Fulham Manchester City 2 – 0 Liverpool U18 PL 2 – North Barnsley 5 – 1 Birmingham City Crewe Alexandra 1 – 2 Leicester City Derby County 1 – 2 Sheffield Wednesday Nottingham Forest 1 – 0 Coventry City Wigan Athletic 3 – 4 Leeds United U18 PL 2 – South Barnet 0 – 3 Millwall Brentford 2 – 4 Bristol City Brighton and Hove Albion 0 – 2 Swansea City Colchester United 1 – 2 Charlton Athletic Queens Park Rangers 1 – 0 Cardiff City
